{"id":106,"date":"2025-07-15T04:44:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T04:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/?p=106"},"modified":"2025-07-15T04:44:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T04:44:32","slug":"trump-vows-to-shut-down-education-dept-smart-voters-dont-vote-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/2025\/07\/trump-vows-to-shut-down-education-dept-smart-voters-dont-vote-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Vows to Shut Down Education Dept: \u201cSmart Voters Don\u2019t Vote for Me\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Department_of_education-1024x650.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-107\" style=\"width:584px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Department_of_education-1024x650.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dailypost.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Department_of_education-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailypost.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Department_of_education-768x488.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dailypost.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Department_of_education-1536x975.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dailypost.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Department_of_education-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/dailypost.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Department_of_education.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON \u2014<\/strong> President Donald Trump announced Friday his decision to shut down the U.S. Department of Education, stating bluntly that \u201can informed electorate is not always a loyal one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking during a town hall in Florida, Trump explained his reasoning with characteristic candor:<br><em>\u201cLet\u2019s be honest \u2014 the smarter people get, the more questions they ask. And we don\u2019t need that. We need loyalty. We need votes. That\u2019s why I\u2019m shutting it down.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump has long criticized the Department of Education as \u201cwasteful,\u201d but his latest justification raised eyebrows. \u201cPeople with too many degrees \u2014 they\u2019re voting for the other guy. My base? They get it. They feel it. They don\u2019t need liberal textbooks telling them what to think.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump announced Friday his decision to shut down the U.S. Department of Education, stating bluntly that \u201can informed electorate is not always a loyal one.\u201d Speaking during a town hall in Florida, Trump explained his reasoning with characteristic candor:\u201cLet\u2019s be honest \u2014 the smarter people get, the more questions they ask&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}